bout de papier, Volume 5, Issue No. 3, 1987
bout de papier, Volume 6, Issue No. 1, 1988
Trudeau’s World: Insiders Reflect on Foreign Policy, Trade, and Defence, 1968–84
WHAT DO HISTORIANS DO WITH the interviews they conduct with insiders about the conduct of government business?
Remembering Allan J. MacEachen
ALLAN J. MACEACHEN – THE CONSUMMATE PARLIAMENTARIAN — was a great Canadian.
Bill Warden
The aged Warden VW camper was full of kids and assorted pets when it was overtaken by a police cruiser. Bill stopped, opened his window and the policeman said “Did you know that you were travelling at 100 km per hour in…
An Inside Look at External Affairs During the Trudeau Years: The Memoirs of Mark MacGuigan
shaping Canadian foreign policy. “Trudeau’s style,” MacGuigan writes, “was … dangerous. His instinct, it always seemed to me, Was not just to establish objectively that he was right, by demolishing his opponents’ arguments, but also to destroy their self-respect, to hurt them…
Low Politics
Visits by Ministers and other VIPs can be the bane of a diplomat’s existence at an overseas post – so many things to go awry, so little appreciation when things go right. Murphy’s Law usually takes over. One incident, forever etched in…
Red-Faced in a Dark Suit
At the end of the 1970s, I acted, for a brief period, as Chargé in our High Commission in Lagos. I had not had much use up until that time for a western-style dress suit since we all wore what were known…
Trudeaumania in Jakarta
I don’t know what came over my wife, Dot. I had never seen her like that before. Nor have I since. Normally, she is highly attentive to my needs and moods – feeding me what I crave on demand, responding to my…
Direct Intervention: Canada-France Relations 1967-1974
It is not every day that one of your predecessors publishes a book about his professional activities in the post you currently occupy. Eldon (Pat) Black’s book Direct Intervention: Canada-France Relations 1967-1974 is a fascinating read. It brings back a lot of…
